2014 Sepang World Supersport Qualifying Results: Quicker And Quicker

Submitted by Jared Earle on Sat, 2014-06-07 08:55

As the temperature rose to 35°C, the lap times dropped.

Jules Cluzel held off challenges from Kev Coghlan to put the MV Agusta on pole position. Michael van der Mark was six tenths of a second behind those two but cruically one hundredth quicker than Kenan Sofuoglu, who starts from the second row. Local wildcard Zaqhwan Zaidi heads the third row in an impressive debut ride.

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This is one of the few tracks MotoGP and SWC series share. And this year, as noted, is the first time at Sepang for the SWC series. So, how much faster is a Moto2 bike around Sepang than a Supersport machine? Well, we have some answers. The Moto2 pole position record is 2m 06.962s (average 157.0 km/h) set by Pol Espargaro in 2012.

Cluzel's pole time is 2m 08.331s (155.635s km/h). So he is 1.369 seconds slower over 5.548 kilometres than Moto2 pole position record. Not a bad start, eh!